The Chai Times // Roar, roar for them 🧡💔

It’s been an incredibly difficult few days for Jews around the world. The confirmation and realization that Kfir and Ariel Bibas, the two young red-headed brothers, and Oded Lifshitz,the 83 year old Grandfather, would be not be coming home alive, the...

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Feb 21, 2025
The Chai Times // I am Your G-d

Shared by my colleague Rabbi Eli Block of CYP Legacy West:The Ten Commandments (statements, whatever) famously open with “I am G-d, your G-d, who took you out from Egypt.” Hebrew has singular and plural forms of the possessive adjective “your.” In En...

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Feb 14, 2025
New Moon Circle Tomorrow!

Hi ladies,We would love for you to join us in honor of Tu B'Shvat.We will be making focaccia garden art and learning about the significance of Tu B'Shvat.Rsvp here: yjpaustin.org/newmoonHope to see you,Mussy

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Feb 10, 2025
The Chai Times //

Sometimes weekly emails go out on Sunday! Two chassidim from Odessa once traveled to their rebbe in pursuit of a blessing. In a private audience, the first one was asked, “How are things in Odessa? Are the young people pious? Are they passi...

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Feb 02, 2025
The Chai Times // Nature isn't ReaI

Thought for your Shabbat: Pharaoh's advisers tried hard to explain away all the plagues. (yes those famous 10 plagues G-d used to free the Jews from Eygpt) Even when the Red Sea split, allowed the Jews free passage, and drowned their enemies, th...

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Jan 24, 2025
The Chai Times // climbing

Poetry: ClimbingThis morning,in the small basement shul,amidst several Chasidic students lost in prayer,I looked up from my siddurto see a man in worker’s clothes climb a ladderand enter through an open ceiling panel.And I thought, Oh yes,he is just...

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Jan 17, 2025